Booting Issues

[yetiinabox]

I had this same problem, after doing an update a few days again I was stuck in 'booting....' loop so I followed these steps to get it working.
1. based of these instructions https://pine64.org/documentation/PineNot...ment/UART/  from a linux machine install

Code:

sudo aptitude install minicom

2. Connect to UART dongle to PineNote  (orientation matters, chips facing up) connect the other to a linux machine then:

Code:

minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 1500000

This will open up the minicom terminal, then power on the PineNote and you will see the de-bugging appear in the terminal 

3. Login with the username and password via the minicom terminal in your linux machine and downgrade the package by:

Code:

sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/mutter-common_47.4-1_all.deb

Thanks to shom (or whoever figured this out) on the PineNote Matrix channel

A second thank you - I had worked out the problem was with mutter, but not how to fix it.